Portsmouth jury acquits man accused of killing girlfriend 10 years ago in third trial. Anthony White, 43, was first charged with murdering 25-year-old Jayneika McCatty in July 2016, after police responded to a 911 call at the couple's apartment and found McCatty with a slice across her neck, and White frantic, pacing back and forth in the living room. Since then, the case had gone through two mistrials. The first in 2018 ended after the medical examiner testified that the severity of McCatty's injuries constituted a homicide, and defense attorney Andrew Sacks argued that the opinion 'invaded on the province of the jury.' The judge agreed, dismissing the jury. In February 2020, the trial ended in a hung jury after jurors could not agree if White was guilty of McCatty's murder. After the pandemic forced the courts to close, White's case was part of a backlog of trials in Portsmouth's Circuit Court. The case was then postponed again due to the availability of witnesses and the victim's family, as well as the preparation of the second trial's transcript that took longer than expected. On Friday, just like in the second trial, White testified about the night McCatty died. He told the courtroom he was leaving the shower when an argument began, and then escalated. With their year-old daughter and White's 6-year-old son down the hall, White said, he tried to calm his partner when suddenly he saw her with a kitchen knife in the bedroom. He said she began to advance toward him, and as he tried to persuade her to drop the knife, she cut his arm. White said he then punched her to get her to drop the knife. But instead, he said, she came at him and the two fell onto the bed, struggling for the knife that fell on the floor. Sweaty from effort, White said he retreated to call someone to pick up the kids when McCatty came at him again. That's when he said he lunged toward her, attempting to wrest the knife from her. White said he couldn't precisely describe how it happened, but McCatty ended up on the ground with a knife wound across her throat. On Thursday afternoon, Bryan Platt, the medical examiner, testified that McCatty's injuries were consistent with a homicide.